Indian state set to toughen rape laws after brutal assault
Voice of America
Soldiers of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), deployed by an order of higher courts, make a routine march inside a government hospital where a rape and murder of a resident doctor occurred in early August, in Kolkata, India, Sept. 4, 2024. Health professionals and activists shout slogans and hold posters as they form a long human chain during a demonstration to condemn the rape and murder of a doctor, along a street in Kolkata on Sept. 3, 2024. People take part in a rally to protest the rape and murder of a resident doctor at a government hospital in August, in Kolkata, India, Sept. 1, 2024.
An Indian state that was rocked by the gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor last month is set to introduce tougher penalties for rape that include life imprisonment and death sentences.
